Dan B. Allender
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
Foreword
“Keith Anderson is a fiercely humble, kind and generous man who will help you receive the blessing of attunement. Keith writes in a manner that is accessible but also invites you to join him on a theologically rich trek up his beloved Mount Rainer. The journey is demanding, and at times stunning and dangerous. The benefit is the certainty that your heart will become larger and your capacity for meaningful connection with God and others enriched. . . . I am Keith's debtor for a lifetime of listening and now I am thankful that you get to listen to the beauty of his words and life. You too will never be the same.”
Men
“I love this book. It engages the deep matters of the heart. It is a book for men, but be warned. It is as much a book for women to understand what it truly means to grow as a man and to love a woman. Morgan awakens in me the hunger to keep moving forward with hope. His call to kingship will unnerve your complacency while calling forth the best of your heart to take on what is truly yours and to throw down what is not. This is a life-shaping journey into the heart of the Father.”
Bible Studies & Devotionals
“I love this book. It engages the deep matters of the heart. It is a book for men, but be warned. It is as much a book for women to understand what it truly means to grow as a man and to love a woman. Morgan awakens in me the hunger to keep moving forward with hope. His call to kingship will unnerve your complacency while calling forth the best of your heart to take on what is truly yours and to throw down what is not. This is a life-shaping journey into the heart of the Father.”
Christian Living
“Desire is often an undeclared war in the heart. We want, and we don’t get. We fail to receive because because we either don’t ask or we ask for what will divert us from glory. Desire is the territory where we battle with the core questions about the goodness and power of God. Paula Rinehart is a wise, generous, and honest woman who knows this terrain and has found in her own struggle a sweet passion for the risen, self-giving love of Jesus. Her invitation is so profound and yet so simple it is staggering: find the passion you were born to engage, and in giving you will find the deepest desire aroused and fulfilled beyond measure. Better Than My Dreams will transform and refine every heart that risks desiring God.”
Christian Living
“Megan Febuary’s tour de force of writing compels us to imagine our story as a world worth creating and honoring through the touch of a keyboard or a pen. Writing is a holy, liminal space where more truth can be engaged in reading what we wrote than merely speaking it out loud. Megan’s lifegiving prose is poetry for the soul. This powerful book will help you reclaim your life through the power of putting your story into words.”
Christian Living
“Changing for Good is as refreshing as a cool rain in the hot, dog days of summer. We all struggle with the question 'Why haven?t I changed more?' So many answers are either trite, tiresome or invoke greater pressure and criticism. Causey writes with clarity and depth about the path for change. His courage to name the heartache and embrace the glory of hope is an invitation that will change your life. Drink in the rain of sweet change.”
Philosophy
“Neil Williams is a brilliant, revelatory, and compelling writer who asks us to enter the complexity of living Christianly and offers us a rich feast to enter the fray and see the beauty and goodness of disruption. I often lingered on passages and had to ask myself: ‘Is this true and do I want the freedom he offers?’ I say yes. I am more profoundly aware of why every yes is found in Jesus. This book will nourish you and give you a vision for a life well lived.”
Confronting Old Testament Controversies
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“I doubt there are many who will agree with him across the board on these challenging issues, yet the depth of reflection he offers is enough to help you return to the Scriptures to address your own presuppositions and aid you in articulating your current understanding of these controversies. I am profoundly grateful for Tremper for countless reasons, and this labor simply adds one more reason I consider him our generation’s foremost Old Testament scholar.”
Theology
“Differences that challenge our identity often evoke fear or anger. Paul and Billie Hoard brilliantly argue that underneath much of the hostility and division that fuels our polarized debates is the unaddressed presence of disgust. Disgust guards the edges of our fragility and soaks the other with self-serving righteous contempt. This compelling and troubling tour de force will rock you. You may differ with some conclusions or implications. Still, their honesty, humanity, and depth of reflection invite a stellar engagement with truth, love, and the wild, disruptive presence of Jesus.”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“Healing Racial Trauma is a magisterial gift for those who have suffered harm as persons of color, and it is also a revelation for those whose whiteness has served as a pair of blinders from racial trauma. Sheila Wise Rowe brilliantly exposes, narrates, honors, and calls forth from Scripture, clients, and her own life, the stories of violation and the power of hope. There are few books I have read where I wept and raged and was humbled and offered a vision of what it might be like to fulfill the Lord's prayer: 'Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.' This is a must-read for all who hunger for righteousness.”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“The word abortion brings judgment, shame, heartache, and defensiveness to the surface. The war regarding abortion is intense and dark and is seldom addressed with the clarity, compassion, and conviction of God’s mercy as found in this excellent book. Sydna Massé has offered those who have experienced abortion firsthand and those who love them a wise and kind path for healing. She is honest, hopeful, and passionately convinced that the love of God is stronger than death, and transformation surer than shame. I am profoundly grateful for this labor of love.”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“The scope and depth of this work is breathtaking. The wisdom embedded in Andy's words is simultaneously soothing and piercing. He cuts to the heart of addiction on both a global and personal level, indicting systems and exposing the heart, while equally offering profound hope for those who suffer addiction, and for those who love those who war with desire. This is a brilliant gift from a man called to the margins whose passion offers us all a taste of the One whose presence is what we truly desire.”
Christian Living
“Parenting with Heart is a radical and compelling book for parents and grandparents, who know in their heart parenting is not easy. It is foolish to believe something as important as parenting can be legislated into a few steps or principles. James and Dodd offer a map to guide your engagement with your children and the wisdom to do so humbly, even in the face of inevitable struggles. Parenting changes us all, but often it turns us more toward guilt or worry. This brilliant resource will give you a path for joy and rich relationships with your children. You (and your children) will not be the same after reading this book.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Most of us can find the book of Psalms in our Bible by familiarity of touch. It is the most read portion of the Bible for dear and clear reasons. The Psalms attune, evoke, and give voice to some of our deepest struggles and desires. The Psalms are also complex poetic masterpieces that need a thoughtful guide to explicate the full richness of what is read. Tremper is a brilliant and passionate guide whose heart is shaped by the cry of the Psalms and transformed by the promise of Jesus in them. You can't find a better ally than Tremper to read the life-giving gift of the Psalms.”
Philosophy
“This book is a tour de force of clarity, depth, and compelling wisdom. Esther Meek argues that we become what we love and that if we love truth then we must love to engage in the interpersonal dialogue of seeing the world well through the prism of another's heart. Her premise is lived out through dialogue with a range of authors that makes my head spin. She seizes their wisdom and yet pursues it further to the person of Christ than any I have read. This is an epistemologically therapeutic embrace of how to live well in the world of divergent thought that nevertheless longs to reveal Jesus as the center of all true wisdom. It is a breathtaking and beautiful labor.”
Marriage, Family & Relationships
Foreword
“Tim not only offers a vastly useful language to name the seasons and movements of our marriage, he also gives us the blessing of new clothes. He dresses us for the searing heat, the cacophony of thunder and lightning, and the cold, hollow recesses of winter. He offers us the pleasure of knowing the weather and being prepared to enter not merely to survive, but to thrive in the face of all that the world around us can do. I love this book.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“The church world is full of spin doctors who offer more opportunity to escape from reality than a liquor store. Often the truth about life takes a Sabbath on Sundays, leaving the people of God looking for passion and reality elsewhere. John Burke wisely understands what is required in a more cynical, indulgent day to invite a heart to a more honest, compelling gospel. His willingness to reinvent a culturally compelling, soul honest, and Bible-based engagement with reality offers anyone committed to the church a picture of what we could become if we were to give up spin for true substance. What a glorious book.”
Open-Hearted People, Soul-Connected Church
Christian Living
“We live in the era of ‘bowling alone.’ Loneliness causes not only relational but also substantial health issues. Many have experienced community more deeply in a twelve-step program or therapy than in church. It is not enough to decry our current morass; we need to recover what is most potent about faithful, honest, life-changing connection in the community of God. Tom Bennardo has prepared a lavish feast of truth that can change an individual’s heart and the momentum of a group to nourish one another with the bread and wine of the coming banquet. Indulge your thirst for intimacy and joy in communion with others, and take in this brilliant book.”
Dr.
Christian Living
“The rifts in the Christian community are legion and legendary. The breakdown between two people or in our own walk with God saps more energy for the gospel than any one factor. Whatever the cause, the tragedy is most Christians don’t have hope for repentance, reconciliation, and restoration. This bold and compelling book by two wise Christian mediators and peacemakers is a tour de force in offering a pathway for rebuilding broken relationships. Judy and Tara live and breathe what they write and know personally and professionally the glory of fighting for peace. Their labor of love will draw you back to the one who gave his life for our peace. Take it and read with hope and courage.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
Marriage, Family & Relationships
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